Last Night Was Enormous

Saturday. I have no idea how many people were there. Enough that finding anybody after losing them became an engineering problem. Heat, smoke, flyers under everybody’s shoes, lights cutting through the room and bass strong enough near the front that it stopped feeling like sound and became something happening to your ribs. At one point a track Edo had sent me weeks ago started and I grabbed Tia’s arm so hard she thought something was wrong. I yelled what it was. She couldn’t hear me. I yelled again. She still couldn’t hear me and then started laughing because apparently my face was sufficient explanation. Lost Hikari for ten minutes later and hated every second. Found Erick first, then Hikari exactly where she’d told me she was going to be. `”I said I’d be here.”` Yes. Useful now. Came outside eventually and the cold felt almost violent after being inside. Everybody suddenly looked tired and young. That’s the part flyers never show. They show the lasers. Nobody prints the bit at 5 a.m. where six people are standing around asking who has the car keys.

Remember me, Eclipse.